Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 400 members of Parliament, in favor of the project, were pressing for debate of the subject in the Commons and there was a general feeling abroad that the Imperial Defence Committee was not to be allowed to kill the scheme...
Shooting Shadows. A comely lady and her husband have designs upon the pocketbook of the inevitable handsome millionaire. She falls in love with him. Can she go through with the blackmail scheme? Oh, dear, no! Following a series of un-bewildering circumstances, the millionaire fires a shot. That starts things going. The "mellow" drama gets a bit overripe and oozes "gooily" about the stage. The audience becomes pained when it ought to laugh, laughs when it ought to quake with fear. Needless to say the lovers are eventually left free to thrill one another with unrestricted mush without further discomfiting...
...collapse of rubber prices was serious to Britain, who has large investments in rubber plantations. Thus, when the "Stevenson Scheme" to raise and maintain rubber prices by curtailed production was announced, the British entered into it with enthusiasm, although different interests failed to agree to the price at which crude rubber should be held...
...Dutch gave the "Stevenson Scheme" its coup de grâce by refusing to restrict their considerable rubber production, and unloading their product on the syndicate. Rubber, instead of remaining at the pegged price of 30? a pound, has declined to 22?. Even on the best British plantations the cost of production is something like 18? a pound. The chief solution proposed to the rubber growers' dilemma is to increase the use of rubber in floor coverings, and to amalgamate plantation companies so as to get a real control over their operations...
...sort of reciprocity scheme to give immediate and efficient help to artists in distress in Vienna has been put into practice and is said to have proved a success. A number of influential citizens have combined to guarantee a certain sum a month, each one contributing 300,000 kronen (about $4.20). "This money is to supply artists, who in exchange are bound to place their work at half price- fixed in mutual agreement-at the disposal of the members of the Society. The money resulting from sales is used to pay back the amount obtained by the artists...